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Professor
Bruce Western
Columbia University
Sociologist; Educator
Area
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Specialty
Sociology, Demography, and Geography
Elected
2007
Uses advanced quantitative methods in social analysis. Early work was a comparative and historical analysis of trade union movements in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries after WWII. Played a leading role in studying the social and political consequences of incarceration and the dynamics of social inequalities in the United States.
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